13th Annual AMI Monetary Reform Conference, 2017

Thursday, 14th of September 2017
10:00 AM CST

Conference video playlist

Robert Poteat opening
Nov 20, 2019
Lucienne Dewulf opening
Nov 20, 2019
Robert Poteat introducing Howard Switzer
Nov 20, 2019
Howard Switzer part 1
Nov 20, 2019
Howard Switzer part 2
Nov 20, 2019
Howard Switzer part 3
Nov 20, 2019
Sue Peters part 1
Nov 20, 2019
Sue Peters part 2
Nov 20, 2019
Bo Young Lim part 1
Nov 20, 2019
Bo Young Lim part 2 skits
Nov 20, 2019
Bo Young Lim part 3
Nov 20, 2019
Bo Young Lim part 4 with Jamie Walton
Nov 20, 2019
Bo Young Lim part 5 with panel
Nov 20, 2019
John Howell
Nov 20, 2019
Steven Walsh as Benjamin Franklin part 1
Nov 20, 2019
Steven Walsh as Benjamin Franklin part 2
Nov 20, 2019
Jim Wert
Nov 20, 2019
Mark Pash part 1
Nov 20, 2019
Mark Pash part 2
Nov 20, 2019
Nick Egnatz
Nov 20, 2019
Dan Sullivan 1st presentation
Nov 20, 2019
Joe Bongiovanni
Nov 20, 2019
Mark Young part 1
Nov 20, 2019
Mark Young part 2 plus panel
Nov 20, 2019
Mark Young part 3 with panel
Nov 20, 2019
Mark Young part 4 with panel plus skit
Nov 20, 2019
song by Howard Switzer
Nov 20, 2019
Greg Coleridge
Nov 20, 2019
Lucille Eckrich
Nov 20, 2019
Private video
Nov 20, 2019
This video is private.
Rev Delman Coates part 1
Nov 20, 2019
Rev Delman Coates part 2
Nov 20, 2019
roving camera during break
Nov 20, 2019
Kaoru Yamaguchi
Nov 20, 2019
Nic Tideman
Nov 20, 2019
Joe Pijanowski
Nov 20, 2019
Jamie Walton on NEED Act
Nov 20, 2019
Jamie Walton on NEED Act wrap
Nov 20, 2019
3rd panel part 1
Nov 20, 2019
3rd panel part 2
Nov 20, 2019
Awards Ceremony Steven Walsh award announcement
Nov 20, 2019
Awards Ceremony Steven Walsh award reception
Nov 20, 2019
Awards Ceremony Sue Peters award presentation
Nov 20, 2019
Awards Ceremony Jamie Walton
Nov 20, 2019
Awards Ceremony interplay
Nov 20, 2019
Stephen Zarlenga Celebration photos
Nov 20, 2019
Stephen Zarlenga Celebration part 1
Nov 20, 2019
Stephen Zarlenga Celebration part 2
Nov 20, 2019
Stephen Zarlenga Celebration part 3 Leah Wilson
Nov 20, 2019
Stephen Zarlenga Celebration part 4 Lucile Eckrich plus tributes
Nov 20, 2019

[AMI secret agents] have been to Russia and seen the tremendous investment in new infrastructure going on there. A briefing on this will be given at the conference (in a closed session).

[AMI secret agents] have been to China and been monitoring developments there remotely. How is the huge amount of infrastructure being built both domestically and internationally – under the “One Belt, One Road” strategy – being funded? A briefing on this will be given at the conference (in a closed session).

AMI’s colleagues in Switzerland, MoMo (Modernising Money), will give us an update on their citizens’ initiated referendum, the Vollgeld (translation is “full money”)-Initiative to transform the Swiss money system along similar lines to what AMI proposes for the U.S. (the NEED Act). You can read more about the Vollgeld-Initiative (in English) here.

AMI’s colleagues in the Netherlands, Ons Geld (translation is “Our Money”), will give us an update on their virtual Euro proposal to deleverage the EU economy without a “credit crunch” – and thus avoiding a “balance sheet recession” – essentially along similar lines to what AMI proposes for in the U.S. (the NEED Act). Ons Geld initiated a successful citizens’ initiative supported by over 100,000 Dutch citizens, resulting in the Scientific Council for Government Policy (a Dutch Government agency) being tasked to present a report on the topic later this year. More recently, two Dutch MPs tabled questions to the Finance Minister on the potential of the “virtual euro” and a recent report adopted by the European Parliament on Fintech also encourages experiments with digital cash. You can read more about the Ons Geld proposal (in English) here.

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AMI’s colleagues in the UK, Positive Money, will give us an update on their many successful activities, including:

  • What Positive Money has been doing in the UK over the past year or so; including research, local groups, networking, lobbying, media, campaigns, achievement highlights.
  • What Positive Money has been doing in collaboration with International Movement for Monetary Reform (IMMR) partners over the past year or so; including key initiatives and achievement highlights.
  • What enabled Positive Money to achieve this success.
  • How Positive Money support the establishment of monetary reform groups around the UK and around the world.
Oaks Tree Beach Photo

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Conference Speakers

Benjamin Franklin
Benjamin Franklin

“Benjamin Franklin” will be with us to recount the Positive monetary experiences of the American colonies. “Ben” will recount his firsthand experience in Pennsylvania, what he told the leaders of Britain and other European countries, and how he educated the people of his time through his writings. “Ben” will also survey...

Dan Sullivan
Dan Sullivan

Dan Sullivan is the president of the Council of Georgist Organizations and the director of Saving Communities. He has been instrumental in winning shifts from property taxes and wage taxes to land value tax in some of the Pennsylvania cities that levy that tax. His leadership is primarily responsible for three quarters of a billion dollars in tax...

Delman Coates
Delman Coates

Rev. Delman Coates is a graduate of Morehouse College (B.A. in Religion, 1995), Harvard Divinity School (Master of Divinity, 1998), and Columbia University (Master of Philosophy in Religion, 2002; Ph.D. in New Testament & Early Christianity, 2006). Coates has served as the Senior Pastor of Mt. Ennon Baptist Church in Clinton, MD since 2004....

Greg Coleridge
Greg Coleridge

Greg Coleridge presents the primary methodology to avoid wasting crucial time and energy at historically critical points – for example the error of some Greens in supporting states to do fractional reserve banking, at this time when real reform must be the target. Rigorous research and study is the essential first step of any social change agent...

Howard Switzer
Howard Switzer

Howard Switzer is a Tennessee architect working in eco-friendly building methods and builds energy efficient, healthy, homes and has presented at the International Materials Research Congress. He is a founding member and was co-chair of the Green Party of Tennessee 2002-2003, serving many terms on the Green Party’s National Committee as a...

Jim Wert
Jim Wert

Jim Wert retired as senior counsel in the Office of the Legislative Counsel of the U.S. House of Representatives, where he worked for almost 31 years, 26 of them writing legislation for banking, financial services, credit, currency and coin laws, including Congressman Dennis Kucinich’s NEED Act, H.R. 2990, which he guided for over 2 years! The...

Joe Bongiovanni
Joe Bongiovanni

Joe Bongiovanni is a second-generation monetary reformer, Co-founder and Director of the Kettle Pond Institute (KPI) in Vermont, a Co-founder and Member of the Alliance for Just Money (AFJM) of Bloomington, IL, and a Member of the Green Party U.S. Banking and Monetary Reform Committee...

John Howell
John Howell

John Howell (Ph.D., UCLA, 1968) is a retired physiologist from Ohio University, where he was the recipient of numerous awards for research and for teaching and served as director of the Interdisciplinary Institute for Musculoskeletal Research. He currently serves as a teaching assistant in the Ohio University Department of Classics and World...

Joseph M. Pijanowski
Joseph M. Pijanowski

Joseph M. Pijanowski, former Directing Business Representative of the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers – Local 126, is highly regarded with a unique understanding of our current monetary system, its penalty to Workers and our economy.In an era of debt, austerity, and spiraling income inequality, we can no longer...

Kaoru Yamaguch
Kaoru Yamaguchi

Dr. Kaoru Yamaguchi has continued to refine his highly advanced modelling system to project how HR 2990 will achieve monetary reform. He concluded it will pay off the US national debt as it comes due; provide the funding for infrastructure, which solves the unemployment problem and does this without inflation!

Former Professor Yamaguchi used...

Lucille Eckrich
Lucille Eckrich

Lucille Eckrich (Ph.D., SUNY Buffalo) was active in the American Monetary Institute since 2005. She is an Associate Professor Emeritus at Illinois State University, where she taught in the College of Education from 2001 till 2020. She studied economics and African studies in the late 1970s, and then worked in Botswana for three years after which...

Mark Pash
Mark Pash

Mark Pash grew up and worked in two separate family businesses, one in manufacturing and the other in retail stores. He went on to receive two business degrees, Bachelors and Masters, from UCLA and USC respectively. Then he served in the US Army after which he received his Certified Financial Planning designation. Over the past 45 years Mark has...

Mark Young
Mark Young

Mark Young has over 25 years of experience in the housing and community development field. He has worked in the non-profit sector for a community development corporation and for city and state governments as well as being a private business owner of Crossroads Development & Consulting Company, JMK Development, Home Care Realty, Urban...

Nick Egnatz
Nick Egnatz

When I first read that our money was created out of thin air by banks when they made loans, I began a desperate search to find out if this could possibly be true. As a Vietnam vet, turned into a peace, social justice and environmental activist, I needed answers. It was probably about fourteen years ago that I fortuitously came across the American...

Nicolaus Tideman
Nicolaus Tideman

Professor Nicolaus Tideman received his Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Chicago (where he studied under Milton Friedman among others), taught at Harvard (1968-73) and served as Senior Staff Economist at the President’s Council of Economic Advisers (1970-71) before moving to Virginia Tech in 1973. He has been Professor of Economics...

Patrick Barry
Patrick Barry

Patrick Barry is the Managing Partner of Barry Investment Advisors LLC, a private wealth management firm based in southeastern Massachusetts. He and his team help over 450 affluent and high net worth families, from diverse backgrounds, with their financial and investment planning needs. After acquiring a BS in Finance from Fairfield University, he...

Ron Davis
Ron Davis

Dr. Ron Davis was trained in applied mathematics at Harvard College and Stanford University, receiving his PhD in Mathematics in 1980. He worked in industry specializing in management science, operations research, and decision analysis, and recently retired from a 30 year career as an associate professor with the California State University...

Sue Peters
Sue Peters

Sue Peters has degrees in History and Education and was an information technologist specializing in finance. Having spent 35 years on Wall Street, the last 15 at a multinational bank, she has an insiders knowledge of the relationship between Wall Street and money. She gave a public in-depth class on the book, The Lost Science of Money, by Stephen...

Young Lim
Young Lim

Bo-Young Lim has been an educator for over 25 years, specializing in language acquisition, diversity and leadership training, and peer counseling. She currently works with the Canadian Centre for Language and Cultural Studies in Toronto as a Mentor for teachers-in-training and as an ESL Instructor to newcomers to Canada. She is also working on a...

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